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The distinctive feature of the legendary sports car Mazda RX-7, produced from 1978 to 2002 was a 1.3-liter twin-turbo rotary engine. The top engine version developed 274 hp (204 kW) and 357 Nm of torque. While motorists buy a car with the original power unit, this model borrowed engine LS2 from the Chevrolet Corvette vehicle. Coupe is put up for sale on eBay online auction at $ 36,000.

The Japanese brand seriously reflects on the possible release of the successor of the sports car RX-7. The new sports coupe will take top positions in the model lineup of Mazda, and, on the idea of engineers will be able to throw a decent challenge to the face of rival Nissan Z. In this case, the car will receive a classic layout with two seats, which will be dramatically different from the Mazda RX-8 in terms of philosophy – in Mazda they wish to give particular novelty new character of an uncompromising racer.

Discontinued in 2002, the Japanese double sports car Mazda RX-7 may return to the market in the near future. This is the official information passed to the public by the representatives of the company on the press conference. Let’s see what we managed to learn more about this project.

A group of designers and engineers in Hiroshima are supposedly working on a new sports car Mazda rotary engine. Nobuhiro Yamamoto, head of a car company, recently said that “the new RX-7” should appear in 2017. This means that we have to wait another four years. This is a quick second in the automotive world. Though in this period a lot of changes can happen. Especially the fact that, as Yamamoto said, “this is yet a not carved stone.”

The Japanese company has plans to bring back to life a famous and so beloved by the Mazda fans sports coupe RX-7, whose serial production was phased out in 2002. Head of development of sports cars of Mazda – Nobuhiro Yamamoto, said that the new generation model will be launched in 2017. Premier of this unique and creative as well as technologically advances sports car will be timed to the 50th anniversary of the launch of the mass production of the model Cosmo Sport 110S, the first sports car in the history of Mazda with a rotary engine.

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